Mario Gehrer new athletics commentator
Mario Gehrer is the new track and field commentator for SRF. He will be joining Patrick Schmid on the air. The two will make their debut together on the station during the Athletissima Lausanne on Thursday, July 9, 2015.
They are the youngest commentary team at SRF Sport: Patrick Schmid, 33, and Mario Gehrer, 34, are now accompanying the athletics competitions for Swiss radio and television together. Schmid has been working as a live commentator since 2009. Mario Gehrer will be making his debut in Lausanne. "I'm really looking forward to my new task. I am highly motivated for this challenge, especially as the performances of the Swiss athletes have been impressive in the past," says Gehrer.
The native of eastern Switzerland has been working for SRF since 2006. He studied journalism and organizational communication at the former Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHW). He then completed the two-year SRF sports stage from 2009 to 2011 and has been working as an editor in the sports department since 2011.
